Only in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMan’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Everything touches everything.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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